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Episode 10: Liberal Feminism: When is "Choice" Empowering?

Feminism, not unlike most social justice movements, has earned its spot on the Instagram infographic wave where passionate graphic designers distill and break down its core tenants into three or more aesthetic slides.  But wait, is all feminism the same? Does it all of it have the exact same "core tenants" and have any of these changed throughout the years according to people's evolving needs? Is everything we repost on Instagram necessarily accurate or truly helpful? Join us in today's mini-episode as we discuss some of the shortcomings in today's "liberal" version of feminism and how we can undertake stronger and more meaningful actions for lasting change.

Episode 9: Conspiracy theories and the political compass

Chemtrails, fraudulent elections and being microchipped via covid vaccines... Tin-foil hats and conspiracy theorists make for an interesting bunch. Join us as we attempt to chart some of the most popular conspiracy theories from 2020 on the political compass!

Episode 8: LGBTQ+ rights and the free market

The narrative of socialism being the most appreciative theory for LGBT rights is a severely distilled one. Free markets and human rights exist in a cycle which has championed human progress over centuries. Join us in this episode where we deconstruct these narratives and explore the relation between free markets, human rights and economic development.

Episode 7: Religiosity and Mental Health

Join us in our last episode for 2020, as we discuss the little talked of interplay between decreasing religiosity and spirituality and the rise in depression and anxiety we have seen over the last couple of years. Is it simply a correlation, or are there underlying mechanisms causing this? The answer requires that a multidisciplinary approach be adopted, and we explore just to what extent treating mental health can incorporate patients' religiosity.

Episode 6: Fatphobia vs. Fat activism

Tune into this week's episode, where we delve into the fat activism movement which is ubiquitous on social media. Analysing the psyche of the movement, we highlight where and how a distinction between self-love and fat acceptance ought to be drawn, and why the movement toes the line of being anti-science today. The perennial questions of "Is all fat bad for me?" and "Which diets are good?" don't have simple answers, and for an effective response, need more that just calling someone too body conscious or simply telling people to accept themselves the way they are. We hope you enjoy this episode and take away from it as much as we learnt whilst researching for it!